Gift Basket Design Book

Gift Basket Design Book

Author: Shirley Frazier

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008-02-26

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0762752475

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When she published her first book about starting a home-based gift basket business, Shirley George Frazier blazed the trail for other home-based business owners coast to coast. She also tapped a growing demand for gift baskets, the all-occasion solution for personalized and memorable presents. Her business was such a phenomenon that Frazier turned her experiences into a book to instruct readers how to make these baskets themselves, combining the creative with the practical and even providing designs for those who wanted to start their own business! This all-new revised edition features: *distinctive holiday ideas *alternate containers for gift baskets *new gift baskets geared for: the techie, the college student, the pet lover, and more! Shirley George Frazier is also the author of MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR THE HOME-BASED BUSINESS (November “07) and HOW TO START A HOME-BASED GIFT BASKET BUSINESS, 4th edition. She is a business owner and marketing expert who appears at small-business workshops across the country, and is often featured on TV network shows as an expert on home-based businesses.


The Gift Basket Design Book

The Gift Basket Design Book

Author: Shirley George Frazier

Publisher: Globe Pequot

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762727957

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Gift baskets are an ideal small-scale business - but not all gift baskets are created equal. The Gift Basket Design Book shows you how to transform your creative ideas into polished professional-looking baskets to give as gifts or use in your own business. Shirley George Frazier, a successful gift basket entrepreneur, reveals basket-building and design techniques that yield expert results. Her easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and photos show you exactly how to craft delightful gift baskets for all occasions, from holidays to life's milestones to those everyday pick-me-ups. Inside you'll find: Guidance on selecting supplies, gifts, and foodstuff The best techniques for placing and anchoring contents The most effective ways to wrap your baskets Special design touches to complete your look Ideas for using unique containers, such as boxes, bags, teacups and more Color photos of more than thirty completed baskets Hundreds of detailed step-by-step photos that illustrate basket-building techniques A special chapter showcasing four professional gift basket designers and their most successful creations Create beautiful gift baskets for: Birthdays Thank-you Get well Good luck Congratulations New baby Spa treatment Housewarming Bereavement Wedding and much more


The Perfect Basket

The Perfect Basket

Author: Diane Phillips

Publisher: Harvard Common Press

Published: 2005-08-13

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1558325409

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Here's the perfect solution for everyone who strives to give the perfect gift! This stylish and user-friendly guide offers baskets for every occasion and at every price level, and is filled with gorgeous four-color photographs for inspiration. The book is also chock full of helpful tips and suggestions for how to choose the proper basket or other creative container, how to select properly sized items and assemble them in the basket, and how to wrap and decorate the basket. This revised and expanded edition now features more than 30 food baskets such as Chocoholic's Basket, Weekend Breakfast Basket, and Wok on the Wild Side Basket, and 60 themed baskets such as Baby's Here Basket, Off to College Basket, and Sports Fan Basket - a gift basket idea for nearly every occasion and holiday. Suggestions for creating most baskets cover several budget levels of $25, $50, and $100 or more. Other ideas range from a backpack filled with goodies for an off-to-college student to a cooler filled with tailgating supplies for an ardent football fan to a selection of homemade baked goods and cookie mixes for your favorite dessert lover. The food-themed baskets also offer recipes using the homemade mixes that can be copied and included as part of the gift. Everyone appreciates a gift created just for them, and gift baskets are a fantastic way to present a personalized gift to that special someone or turn a token gift into something treasured. The Perfect Basket gives experts and novices alike everything they need to create spectacular gift baskets for everyone on their list.


Handmade Baskets

Handmade Baskets

Author: Lyn Siler

Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780806983622

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Includes how-to information.


American Baskets

American Baskets

Author: Robert Shaw

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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American Baskets is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of an art form that is ten thousand years old. Basketmaking is the most basic of all crafts in its methods and material, and its development reflects specifically local traditions. Here, author Robert Shaw ("the information source on major U.S. crafts" -- "Booklist) examines the craft's history and artistry throughout the country and through various periods. Once among the most common of household objects, handmade baskets have a cachet that has never been equaled. Despite the fact that the American artisan basket has all but disappeared from daily use (the baskets that we have in our homes today are either made from synthetic materials, often by machine, or imported from overseas where labor is cheap), the genuine example of a handcrafted basket is highly prized as a beautiful and valuable object. Baskets are fixtures in the popular style of country decorating, and collectors search out fine antiques as well as outstanding contemporary basket creations. American Baskets celebrates the treasures of yesterday while exploring the work of many of the fine artists who labor over the art form today. Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, American Baskets analyzes the influences of both Native Americans and early settlers, including the Aleuts and Hopi as well as the Quakers and Pennsylvania Dutch. The significant contributions of early African-American East Coast culture and the rich heritage of rural Appalachia are also discussed. Paying special attention to the collectible aspect of the American basket, Robert Shaw investigates every type of basket indigenous to this country: ash splint farmbaskets, rattan "lightship" baskets, rye straw baskets, African-American rush baskets, and more. A resource guide listing museums that house basket exhibits, antiques dealers and auction houses that sell high-quality pieces, and traditional basket artisans and organizations completes the elegant package.


The Basket Book

The Basket Book

Author: Lyn Siler

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780806968308

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There is nothing like the satisfaction of owning a beautiful handmade basket. They brighten any room, are useful around any home, and make cherished heirloom gifts. This magnificent collection of over 30 baskets draws on the long, rich tradition of basketmaking and uses a variety of fascinating techniques and easy-to-find materials. In a matter of hours, you can proudly produce a handsome basket that will be admired for generations to come. You'll appreciate the step-by-step instructions, including over 400 illustrations, colorful full-page photos and helpful hints and suggestions. Gorgeous watercolors of baskets are interspersed throughout, making this book as beautiful as it is useful. Book jacket.


Crochet Baskets

Crochet Baskets

Author: Nola A. Heidbreder

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781940611617

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With the help of Nola Heidbreder and Linda Pietz, two of the crochet community's most respected crafters, crocheters of all skill levels can master the fundamentals or discover new challenges while crocheting thirty stylish and useful baskets to use around the home or to bestow as gifts.


Baskets

Baskets

Author: Tabara N'Diaye

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781787132702

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Baskets are a simple but stylish way to organize your home. The craft of basketry has been around for decades, and has slowly evolved into the latest interior trend. These hard-working multitaskers are not only a practical storage option, but they are also decorative and instantly add texture and warmth to any room. Handled, woven, lined, colored, patterned, lidded – there are so many options when it comes to choosing the baskets you display in your home that fits your needs and your decorating style. Baskets will teach you how to master the art of basketry through the 15 projects in this book. Learn how to add pattern and colour to your woven wonders are you create a colourful collection of storage of your own. The projects include laundry baskets, baskets with lids, basket bags and backpacks, a gorgeous woven lampshade and a stylish collection of patterned tableware.


Indian Baskets

Indian Baskets

Author: Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764319006

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Explore the stunning diversity of North American Indian and Eskimo baskets, from little-known native basketry to the more common forms. This colorful book combines manufacturing techniques, raw materials, forms, and decorations with information on native lifestyles. More than 175 regional and tribal styles are documented in an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated format, with a newly updated value guide. Readers will be able to identify their own Indian baskets using this guide's standardized terminology, identification keys, glossary, maps, and bibliographies. Hundreds of baskets were photographed for this volume, many from the famous and unparalleled collection of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University where the authors began their basketry research in the 1970s.


Baskets from Nature's Bounty

Baskets from Nature's Bounty

Author: Elizabeth Jensen

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 9780934026697

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On identifying, collecting, and preparing hundreds of common plants, and clear, complete instructions for crafting them into woven, plaited, twined, and coiled baskets. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.